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A Tiny Portable Programmers Text Editor - A simple console mode text editor similar to vi which has lots of features in a very small package. [Win32

AEditor - A project aimed at developing an editor for Extreme Programming with a core in C++ and Ruby used for glue. Information about the mission

Anyedit - A development environment and Editor with a wide range of functionalities. Written entirely in C++.

Bhaum - Text/HTML editor and RTF viewer for Windows.

Bluefish - A programmer's HTML editor written using GTK

BVI - Binary Visual editor - The bvi editor is a display-oriented editor for binary files

Code Browser - A folding text editor that allows to structure source code using folders. [Win32/Linux]

ConTEXT - Programmer's editor with syntax highlighting

Crimson Editor - Windows text editor that fits on a floppy yet offers powerful features and customizable syntax highlighting.

Cssed - CSS editor featuring auto completion

DatePad - Combines calendar functions with text editing features. [Win 98 or better]

Dav - GNU/Linux console-based text editor. Freely licensed under the GPL.

Ed!'s home on the web - Ed! is a free open source text editor for the Linux platform. The source code is available for download. The site also provides some information on how to develop an editor in the Linux console environment using the ncurses library.

Eddi - Tcl and tix based editor.

EditPad Classic - Notepad replacement for Windows with unlimited file size

EditPad Lite - Windows text editor with block functions and Asian language support. [Non-commercial use only.]

Enigma - A universal integrated development environment with syntax coloring for a number of programming languages including C++

ExtremePad - Contains MinLock feature to hide important information

Freddy - An ascii text editor

FTE Text Editor - A folding text editor for programmers.

gedit - Lightweight editing tool for the GNOME desktop found in many distributions of Linux

gEdit - Lightweight but powerful text editor of the GNOME project.

Gnotepad+ - An HTML/text editor using GTK+ and/or GNOME.

GNU Emacs - Official Free Software Foundation page for the extensible

GNU Nano - Clone of the Pico text editor with some enhancements. Available for Linux and DOS. [Open Source - GPL]

GNU Nano - Clone of the Pico text editor with some enhancements. Available for Linux and DOS.

GNU TeXmacs - Editor for extensible

Haxial TextEdit - Fast loading time

Helene - A webbased syntax highlighting text editor (Javascript) [OS Independent].

HexEdit - A Macintosh hexadecimal file editor that handles both data and resource forks.

ISO 8859-2 - Simple text editor for editing files with codepage ISO 8859-2 (Central European). [Windows]

J - A multifile

JCreator - JCreator provides the user with a wide range of functionality such as: Project management

JED - A programmer's editor for the Unix

Jed modes and scripts - Some scripts for customising and enhancing the JED editor using the SLang scripting capabilities.

jEdit - A cross platform programmer's text editor written in Java that is customizable with plugins. [Requires Java VM]

Jext for Windows - Jext is a powerful pure Java text editor. That has been mainly designed for programmers. It provides syntax colorizing (Java

JPad - A simple editor for writing java programs. [Win32]

jVi - jVi is a small subset of vim which is pluggable into JBuilder.

Katy - A text editor for KDE inspired by the popular Editor UltraEdit.

KeyNote - A tabbed editor that has several plugins to add dialer

LaTeX Editor - A configurable LaTeX editor

LDE - The Linux Disk Editor - Disk editor for Linux

LedLineIt! - Free cross-platform

mdiNotepad - A Multiple document interface (MDI) text editor with customizable toolbar

MetaPad - Notepad replacement for Windows with unlimited file size

NEdit - GUI-style plain-text editor for X-Windows systems. Features include syntax highlighting and C-style macro language.

Nedit Macros - A large collection of macros for use with the NEdit text editor.

NEdit Support Page - Package to port NEdit on Windows and a package of NEdit macros to edit LaTeX files.

Netpadd - Windows text editor with syntax highlighting for several languages

NNED - Syntax editor for web developer or remote UNIX administrator and UNIX and Windows programmers

Notepad++ - Editor with tabbed interface

Notepad2 - Florian Balmer's free notepad replacement (licensed under the GPL) intended to be small and fast

NotepadEx - Notepad replacement without size limitation

Notes Center - Utility that provides a way of storing and retrieving all of your notes.

Notespad - A general text editor with configurable interface

NotGNU Emacs Editor - NotGNU is a freeware

Peacock - HTML Editor for GTK+/GNOME. It supports most of basic HTML. It features session management and preview using the GtkHTML widget.

Perl Code Editor - A editor for Perl which includes: Syntax Coloring

phpEditorIDE - An advanced tool for creating web pages in PHP

poEdit - A cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching vi and editing the file by hand.

Professional Notepad - An advanced tool that allows one to view and edit HTML

Programmer's File Editor - Once popular Windows editor

Programmers Notepad - Windows programming editor with an integrated Hex viewer/editor.

PSPad - A programmers editor that offers unlimited length of edited text

QE Personal Editor - A PE2-like editor program for Unix.

Quanta Plus - An HTML editor and a web development for the K Desktop Environment.

REd0 - A text editor written in TCL/Tk

RegexSR - A tool to create complex regular expressions and transform them into Java code.

Resource Hacker - Utility to edit Windows executable resources.

Roden Web Editor - An editor with that supports HTML

RQ Words - Tool for creative poetry/writing or creating dynamic web pages. Save work as a web page

Scintilla and SciTE - Download

SciTE - A SCIntilla based text editor.[Win32/linux]

SETEDIT - Text mode editor to supersede Borlands BC++ editor with a number of enhancements. Available for DOS and Linux.

Shed - Easy to use hex editor written for Unix/Linux using ncurses

Singlish - Simple and easy to use Sinhala text editor that allows for typing Sinhala in ASCII text as it is pronounced in English.

Sinhala Software Solutions - MADHURA Bilingual software enables computers to work with English and Sinhala languages simultaneously

SLED - Simple Line EDitor - Created primarily for composing email on a Unix console. Allows you to edit files that are wider than your screen's column size by horizontal scrolling.

Steno Pad 2 - A free word processor

Super NoteTab Light - Freeware version of award-winning text editor Super NoteTab.

SuperEdi - Unicode text editor for programmers and web designers with syntax coloring and build-in FTP client. [Win32]

TED Notepad - Offers regular expressions through filtering architecture

Text Master - Features include full screen mode

The Hessling Editor (THE) - Editor based on the VM/CMS editor XEDIT

The JED Editor Page - Text editor for Unix

The Literary Machine - LM 2000 creativity and authoring tool. Powered by a relational database that processes ideas and research for brainstorming and concept mapping. Features front-end word processing to order and compile texts into written compositions.

Tinn - A free text editor that trys to address some of Notepad's limitations without getting too big. It is written in Delphi 5 using the TSynEdit components.

Tkoutline - A cross-platform outline editor written in Tcl/Tk.

tsWebEditor - Windows source code editor supporting a number of programming languages. Software description

Vigor - Has all the features of traditional Unix vi

Vim online - Resources

Webmaster Tools Central - Editors - HTML

Webniac - A multilingual open source webpage editor published under GNU's GPL.

Win32pad - Small notepad replacement which supports Windows

WinMacro - Macro recorder and player (C++) [Windows].

Xcoral - A text editor for X-window (UNIX only)

Xoology Coda - A full syntax parsing editor with integrated debugger. Support JavaScript

Yikes 2 - Windows-based editor designed to emulate DOS edit. Supports editing of plain text and

ZED - Small editor with features for programmers.

Zile is Lossy Emacs - An Emacs clone useful for small footprint installations (like on floppy disk) or quick editing sessions. Available are a description of the features